Common five-ring
The common five-ring is a small brown butterfly with round eyespots on its wings. The biggest one, near the tip of each front wing, is black with a yellow ring and two shiny dots in the middle. Its back wings have smaller eyespots too.
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Fun facts
Its eyespots may fool birds into pecking at the wing instead of the body.
Butterflies born in the dry season are paler, and their back wing eyespots shrink to tiny specks.
It lives in so many places that scientists have named 11 different forms of it.
Most asked questions about Common five-ring
?How big is the common five-ring?
Its wings measure about 4 to 4.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
?Why does the common five-ring have eyespots?
The spots look like eyes and can trick birds into attacking the wrong end.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ypthima baldus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Ypthima baldus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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